Saturday, January 16, 2010

Are Democrats A Cult?

As my man Mark Levin would say.. That's right I said it!

We learned this week that if you are white but play for the right team you can pretty much use the "N" word and get a pass from the black community and the rest of the democrats. Which got me thinking that maybe democrats are a cult.. Hmm. Well let's examine the Cult checklist put togther by Janja Lalich, Ph.D. & Michael D. Langone, Ph.D. and found at CSJ.org

How many of these can we check off for the democrats? Can you think of the blaring examples of how democrats fit these characteristics? Please feel free to post these on your blog and check them off with me...

‪The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.

‪Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.

‪Mind-altering practices(such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, and debilitating work routines) are used in excess and serve to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).

‪The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (for example, members must get permission to date, change jobs, marry—or leaders prescribe what types of clothes to wear, where to live, whether or not to have children, how to discipline children, and so forth).

‪The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members (for example, the leader is considered the Messiah, a special being, an avatar—or the group and/or the leader is on a special mission to save humanity).

‪The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.

‪The leader is not accountable to any authorities (unlike, for example, teachers, military commanders or ministers, priests, monks, and rabbis of mainstream religious denominations).

‪The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members' participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group (for example, lying to family or friends, or collecting money for bogus charities).

‪The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt iin order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.

‪Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.

‪The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.

‪The group is preoccupied with making money.

‪Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities.

‪Members are encouraged or required to live and/or socialize only with other group members.

‪The most loyal members (the “true believers”) feel there can be no life outside the context of the group. They believe there is no other way to be, and often fear reprisals to themselves or others if they leave (or even consider leaving) the group.

1 comment:

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said...

I think the rank are socialists/communists. I think they have been funded and supported by enemies of our country. They are idealists. There are components of the socialists ideal that I think harnesses cult like attributes. The small groups that sprout up like weeds that are designed to agitate and create insurrections in our culture and system of government. I think have cult figures. I think "rules for radicals" have cult like qualities.I do think it's plausible that cults make up the jam of the sandwich of what is the dnc. Here is a great site which captures liberals doing their cultural agitating. Caution lots of lewdness and raunchy pictures. http://zombietime.com/